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Quince operates an e-commerce clothing company that offers luxury clothing and accessories, enabling users to select from and purchase a wide range of products from an array of brands at competitive prices.
New Funding Raised: $500M, Series E
Round Investors: ICONIQ Capital (lead), Wellington Management, Notable Capital, DST Global
🚀Growth Focus: Support the continued growth and global expansion of its proprietary Manufacturer-to-Consumer operating system.
Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Retail
Employee Count: 635
Replit develops a collaborative AI software development platform for creating and deploying applications, allowing developers and teams to optimize coding processes, boost efficiency, and design, evaluate, and implement software entirely online.
New Funding Raised: $400M, Series D
Round Investors: Georgian (lead), Databricks, Coatue, Okta Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Support continued investment in its AI development tools, global expansion across Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, and the infrastructure needed to support growing demand.
Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0
HQ: San Mateo, CA
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 171
Amber Semiconductor develops solid-state technologies for the digital control of electricity, enabling users to have access to an upgrade of the current, standard, old-tech-based building electrical infrastructure to state-of-the-art silicon chip systems with embedded intelligence.
New Funding Raised: $30M, Series C
Round Investors: [Not Disclosed]
🚀Growth Focus: Support product development, expand customer engagement, and accelerate the commercialization of its vertical power delivery technology for the rapidly growing AI infrastructure market.
Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0
HQ: Dublin, CA
Industry: Computers and Electronics Manufacturing
Employee Count: 18
Moxie operates an all-in-one operating system that helps clinicians start and run aesthetic clinics, allowing users to access business coaching, marketing support, compliance guidance, and strategic advice to launch, run, and scale aesthetic practices.
New Funding Raised: $25M, Series C
Round Investors: Viewpoint Ventures (lead), Lachy Groom, SignalFire, Haystack
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate its mission to make clinically-led growth the standard in aesthetic medicine.
Press: Pulse 2.0, GlobeNewswire
HQ: Remote Org (most ee’s in NYC)
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 15
Juicebox develops a talent sourcing and engagement platform, enabling recruiters and hiring teams to identify qualified candidates and scale personalized outreach more efficiently.
New Funding Raised: $80M, Series B
Round Investors: DST Global (lead), Coatue, Verified Capital, NFDG Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate product development, expand its enterprise go-to-market strategy, and support international expansion, beginning with the opening of a London office later this year.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 73
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Slide creates backup and disaster recovery solutions for managed service providers, enabling scalable data protection, faster recovery, improved reliability, and reduced operational overhead through streamlined operations and modern architecture.
New Funding Raised: $70M, Series B
Round Investors: General Catalyst (lead), Connecticut Innovations, Vine Ventures, Base10 Partners
🚀Growth Focus: Support global expansion, accelerate product development, and strengthen its position in the MSP backup and disaster recovery market.
Press: Pulse 2.0, GlobeNewswire
HQ: Norwalk, CT
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 56
Ernesta manufactures custom rugs intended to fulfill users' requirements to decorate their house flooring, enabling consumers to get their flooring decorated with a choice of rugs.
New Funding Raised: $20M, Series B
Round Investors: Addition (lead), True Ventures, Platform Capital Management
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its retail footprint and strengthen its technology platforms as it works to build a leading brand in the U.S. rug market.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Yahoo Finance
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Retail
Employee Count: 56
Sigma360 develops an AI-driven risk intelligence platform that power-optimizes screening and monitoring across the world's external data, allowing compliance teams and investigation firms to operate efficiently and make decisions with a holistic view of risk.
New Funding Raised: $17.3M, Series B
Round Investors: Moderne Ventures (lead), Contour Venture Partners, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its platform capabilities, strengthen proprietary risk intelligence datasets, and accelerate global expansion across banks, payment providers, fintechs, and other regulated financial institutions.
Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 43
Mind Robotics manufactures AI-driven robotic systems for industrial optimization and operational transformation, enabling enterprise operators to improve scalability and responsiveness in complex production environments.
New Funding Raised: $500M, Series A
Round Investors: Accel (lead), Andreessen Horowitz (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Support the development and deployment of AI-powered robotic systems at an industrial scale.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: Palo Alto, CA
Industry: Robotics Engineering
Employee Count: 13
Kai develops an agentic AI cybersecurity platform, allowing organizations to automate threat analysis, decision-making, and security operations at machine speed.
New Funding Raised: $125M, Series A
Round Investors: Evolution Equity Partners (lead), N47
🚀Growth Focus: Support AI research, platform scaling, and global expansion as demand for AI-driven cybersecurity continues to grow.
Press: Pulse 2.0, SiliconANGLE
HQ: San Jose, CA
Industry: Computer and Network Security
Employee Count: 50
Axiamatic develops a digital transformation platform that offers an agentic control plane for enterprise transformation, enabling users to deliver successful transformations with greater predictability, from ERP to CRM to supply chain transformations.
New Funding Raised: $54M, Series A
Round Investors: Grayrock Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners
🚀Growth Focus: Support to deliver AI that accelerates enterprise transformations.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: Menlo Park, CA
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 67
Vima Therapeutics develops oral therapeutics for the treatment of movement disorders, providing patients with improved motor control, enhanced treatment efficacy, and better tolerability while addressing the neurological mechanisms responsible for involuntary muscle contractions.
New Funding Raised: $40M, Series A
Round Investors: Access Industries, Frazier Life Sciences, Canaan Partners, Atlas Venture
🚀Growth Focus: Advance potential first-in-class oral therapy for dystonia and Parkinson’s disease.
Press: GlobeNewswire, Yahoo Finance
HQ: Cambridge, MA
Industry: Biotechnology Research
Employee Count: 20
Xscape Photonics’s photonic hardware platform increases data transmission capacity between computing components in AI infrastructure, enabling AI data center operators and high-performance computing developers to improve bandwidth efficiency and energy use in computing systems.
New Funding Raised: $37M, Series A
Round Investors: Addition (lead), True Ventures, Platform Capital Management, Kyra Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate the development of its photonic technologies, and expand its engineering teams to support the commercialization of its photonics platform.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: Fort Lee, NJ
Industry: Computer Hardware Manufacturing
Employee Count: 52
Swarm Aero develops unmanned aerial vehicles that are designed for various applications, allowing commercial sectors to deploy large-scale and adaptive uncrewed vehicle operations in dynamic and contested environments.
New Funding Raised: $35M, Series A
Round Investors: Silent Ventures (lead), Two Sigma Ventures (lead), Scribble Ventures, Friends & Family Capital
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate development and deployment of its large UAV platform and the swarm software that allows drones to operate collaboratively at scale.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: Oxnard, CA
Industry: Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing
Employee Count: 52
Translucent AI develops a healthcare financial operations platform, enabling hospitals and clinics to automate data analysis, unify financial insights, and support strategic decision-making.
New Funding Raised: $27M, Series A
Round Investors: Google Ventures (lead), FPV Ventures, Virtue, New Enterprise Associates
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate product development and expand its team to bring real-time financial intelligence to more health systems across the U.S.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Hospitals and Health Care
Employee Count: 27
Sales Gigs 🏆
⭐️Nimble (LI) is hiring Enterprise AEs for its NYC and West Coast teams, as well as a RevOps leader and BDRs, based in NYC.
Encord (LI) is hiring AEs for its London and SF-based teams, as well as a BDR Manager for its SF-based team.
Braintrust (LI) is hiring tons of sales roles, including Strategic, Commercial, and Enterprise AEs across all regions of the US.
Render (LI) is hiring a remote Enterprise AE and Strategic Account Manager for its SF-based team.
Bretton AI (LI) is hiring Enterprise AEs & Deployment Strategists for its SF-based team.
Brandlight (LI) is hiring Enterprise AEs for its NYC-based team.
ElevenLabs (LI) is hiring for tons of Revenue roles, including remote Commercial AEs and Enterprise AEs in the US and globally.
Northslope (LI) is hiring a Principal, Business Development for its New York-based team.
Decagon (LI) is hiring remote Director, Strategic Accounts, Enterprise AEs, and SDRs out of its NYC and SF offices.
Upwind (LI) is hiring remote Enterprise AEs and Commercial AEs across the US, and globally.
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